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There’s a lot of talk about superfoods nowadays and how certain foods are packed with vitamins and minerals. This salad is my stab at throwing all the good stuff in one bowl and making dinner out of it.

A tartine is a fancy, Frenchified word for a type of open-faced sandwich. The word is the diminutive of the French word tarte and is pronounced tar-teen. Essentially toasted bread topped with tasty things, tartines make a lovely light supper in summer months when cooking is not on the radar.

Cacio e pepe is Rome’s answer to what’s for dinner when the cupboards are bare and you are not, I repeat, not going to brave the aisles of the grocery store. If you have pasta, Peccorino and pepper you can make this dish for dinner on those nights when you’d really rather not cook; but, you will be so glad that you did.

The night this recipe was born I told my husband that we would probably drop a kilo or two after eating this spa-like meal. It’s February and we’re still trying to get a handle on what happened to our waistlines after the crazy holidays.

You’re going to love how this colorful sweet potato dinner practically makes itself. To make things even more amenable, check out the wine suggestion and pour yourself a glass while you wait for the potato to bake. Relax. This low fat, nutritious dinner is the perfect meatless meal for a busy weekday night. Cheers.

One of my new favorites is Bibimbap (bee-bim-bop), a delicious Korean dish of rice, sautéed vegetables, fried egg, spicy chili sauce and kimchi. The vegetables are usually cooked separately and arranged beautifully around the rice, but I think you’ll appreciate the time saving measure of just cooking all the veggies at once. After all, you’re going to mix it all up before you take the first bite, right?

My son brought me a big bag of green tomatoes from his garden the other day. What could we possibly do with all these hard round green globes? I say fry them up. Most everyone gets excited about ripe summer tomatoes. But I’m addicted to those end of summer green ones.

One of the best things about summer (and there are lots of good things) is our local farmer’s market here in Hudson. We have a small one in my town, right on the green in the middle of the city. On Saturday mornings I find a wide variety of fresh picked produce to experiment with in the coming week.

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After a semester studying in Europe, it became obvious to Carla Snyder that a large portion of the world didn't eat to live, but lived to eat. With a BA in Journalism in hand, she began a 30-year culinary journey as a caterer, cooking school teacher, artisan baker, food writer, corporate culinary event planner, cookbook co-author and co-owner of Kitchen Counter Points cooking school.